Time water-heater and alarm.



No. 792,848. PATENTED JUNE 20, 1905. G. W. RICHARDSON. 6r. H. J. SAMS.

TIME WATER HEATERAND ALARM.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 6, 1903.

UNITED STATES Patented June 20, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE WILLIAM RICHARDSON AND HENRY JAMES SAMS, OF PETER- BOROUGH,ENGLAND.

TIME WATER-HEATER AND ALARM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 792,848, dated June 20,1905.

Application filed November 6, 1903. Serial No. 180.103.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, GEORGE WILLIAM RICHARDSON, engineers fitter,residing at 74 Palmerston road, Woodstone, and HENRY JAMES SAns,commercial traveler, residing at 8 Saxon Villas, London Road,Peterborough,

in the county of Northampton, England, both subjects of the King ofGreat Britain and Ireland, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Automatic VVater-Heaters and Alarms, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention has for its object improved means for automaticallyboiling water and sounding an alarm at any desired time. For thispurpose We provide an ordinary alarmclock and a stove to burn methylatedspirits, the said clock and stove being placed upon or fitted to a standor table which may be provided with handles at each end for conveniencein carrying.

The stove consists, preferably, of acircular metal reservoir forcontaining oil, and the part forming the burner is constructed of aremovable chamber fitted into the top of said reservoir and packed withasbestos, the said chamber having an opening in the top and the asbestosbeing covered by wire-gauze across said opening and saturated with thespirit.

An asbestos or other wick or cord passes from the reservoir through atube in the burner-chamber for providing a night or pilot light. Thereservoir is fitted with a pivoted cover, which lies over the top of theburner when the latter is not in use and which is antomatically turnedaside, so as to uncover the burner at the desired time set by theclockalarm.

The reservoir is provided with supports for holding a kettle or othervessel above the burner for boiling water, the kettle being filledthrough a screw-plug in the top of the same. The spout of the kettle isprovided with a screw-stopper, thus keeping it steam-tight, and its top,formed in one with the body, so as to dispense with a cover, is fittedwith a steam-whistle for giving an alarm when the water boils.

The alarm-spindle is provided with acranked arm projecting from the backof the clock,

which arm as the alarm sounds at its appointed time revolves until itcomes in contact With a lever which bears against a projection on avertical rod forming the pivot of the burnercover and raises and turnsthe latter from its closed position, thus causing the burner to belighted from the pilot-light at its side, and in order to more clearlyunderstand our said invention reference is had to the accompanying sheetof drawings, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of the apparatus at.

the back of the same, the reservoir and burner being shown partly insection. Fig.2 is a plan of the same With the burner-cover open, andFig. 3 is a cross-section on the line 50 a; of Fig. 1.

a is the alarm-clock, fixed to the stand or table 6, provided withhandles 0 at each end.

(1 is the oil-reservoir, and e the burner-chamber, fitted to the top ofthe same, so as to be removed therefrom for filling the latter with therequisite quantity of oil. The chamber a is packed with asbestos f,which is covered with wire-gauze 9 across the opening 7, forming theburner.

71 is the wick or cord passing from the reservoir up through the tube 9'to form a pilot or night light at the side of the burner.

is is an opening in the chamber exposing the asbestos to the pilot-lightfor lighting the burner when the cover Z is removed. on is the lever,pivoted at n for automatically opening the said cover by means of thecranked arm 0, fixed to the alarm-spindle 1), bearing against theupright arm of the lever and raising the end of the other or longer arm.This end is formed so as to support the curved or cranked part 9 of avertical rod '7', pivoted to the reservoir and to which the cover isfixed.

The kettles is supported on the arms tabove the burner and is fitted atthe top with a steamwhistle u, the spout being also fitted with ascrew-stopper o for keeping it steam-tight. The kettle may be filledwith water by un screwing the whistle or by a separate screwplug.

In operation the alarm is set in the usual manner to the desired timeand the arm 0 turned back to the position shown. As soon as the alarmsounds the arm 0 turns until it comes into contact with the vertical armof the lever m and pushes the latter back a short distance, as shown indotted lines, thus raising the other arm of the lever, and with it therod 7, the cranked part q of which sliding down the inclined end of saidlever causes the rod 9 to turn, and thus to bring the cover Z into itsopen position, as shown in Fig. 2. The pilotlight is thus exposed to theasbestos f through the opening is, and the asbestos having previouslybeen saturated with methylated spirit is set alight beneath the kettle,so as to boil the Water therein, the whistle u sounding directly theWater boils. 7

Having now fully described the nature of our said invention, what weclaim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In an automatic water-heater and alarm the combination of anoil-reservoir, a spiritburner fitted thereto, a pilot-light fed by awick from the reservoir, a pivoted cover carried by a vertical rod abovethe burner, a pivoted lever formed with aninclined part supporting saidrod, and an alarm-clock fitted with a cranked arm fixed to thealarm-spindle for operating the said lever for the purpose of uncoveringthe burner, substantially as described. V

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands in the presence of twowitnesses.

GEORGE WILLIAM RICHARDSON. HENRY JAMES SAMS.

Witnesses:

FREDERICK MIOAH MELLOR, H. D. J AMESON.

